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Buyei people's local conditions and customs?

Buyi people are hospitable, warm, generous, sincere, all come to the cottage, friends and relatives, old friends, never know, all will be treated with wine. Buyi people are very polite, do not welcome foul-mouthed, rude guests. \x0d\\Buyi families are separated and live separately. However, despite the separation of brothers, when distributing property, they leave their parents a pension field, which is cultivated by brothers in turn. After the death of their parents, the old-age pension field is turned into a grave field for tomb-sweeping during the Ching Ming Festival. So that children and grandchildren will always remember the elders' earnest advice and the kindness of their upbringing. \x0d\\\x0d\\ The costumes of the Buyi people are very distinctive. Clothing is mostly green, blue and white colors. Men's clothing styles are basically the same everywhere, more than wrapped headgear, headgear has two kinds of stripes and pure green; clothes for the lapel short clothes, generally white outside the green or blue, pants for the pants; the elderly more wear big-sleeved short clothes or green, blue long shirt, feet wear cloth tunic socks. The dress of modern Buyi women varies from place to place, with women wearing large-breasted short clothes and some wearing pleated long skirts. In the area of Biantan Mountain, where the Buyi people live, young girls like to wear short clothes with rolled edges, satin belts, brocade headkerchiefs, turbans with thick hair braids, brocade patterns and several rings of hair braids on their foreheads, and pants with embroidered shoes underneath. Young women wear batik pleated dresses, short clothes with slanting lapels, embroidered plate shoulders, embroidered with various kinds of floral threads along the shoulders into two rows of small squares with semicircular patterns, the collar ring on both sides of the throw flowers brocade, eye-catching colors; the middle of the sleeves is brocade, the upper and lower sections are batik; the hem of the clothes is about an inch of brocade edging, the chest wears a long embroidered or brocaded girdle, and wears a light-colored satin sash; they wear brocaded head scarves, and a bunch of juggling whiskers made of various colors of threads hangs from the ears. The headdress is a brocade turban with a bunch of juggling whiskers made of various colors of threads hanging from the ears. Married people's headdress to wear "more ko", made of bamboo shoot shells and cloth, shaped like a handful of skips, the front round after the moment. During grand festivals or banquets, women still wear a variety of earrings, rings, collars, hairpins, bracelets and other silver jewelry. \x0d\ Marriage is practiced independently. When receiving the bride, they have to sing a song, commonly known as the song of the sisters. On the evening of the bride's arrival at the man's home, the activities of singing the purse song and asking for a purse are held, and there is a saying of "a night of purse and a night of song". Traditional festivals include March 3, April 8, June 6, Eat New Festival, and July 30th. "March 3" is the traditional grand festival of the Buyi people, the beginning of rice cultivation on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, to sacrifice the gods of the mountains, the gods of the land and the gods of the ancestors and the soul of the rice, and make five-color flowers of glutinous rice offerings; the area of Qianxinan Prefecture, the male and female youth to gather in the "Chabai song field" to play the mountain song, the participants reached thousands to tens of thousands of people. In the area of Qianxinan Prefecture, young men and women gather at the "Chabai Song Ground" to play songs on the mountain, with thousands to ten thousand participants. Many unmarried young men and women get to know each other, fall in love, and commit to a life-long relationship through playing wooden leaves and singing songs.?€€?€€?€€Buyi people eat two meals a day when they are idle and three meals when they are busy. To rice, corn as the main food, wheat, sorghum, potato taro and beans as a supplement. There are wooden pots, tripod pots cooking rice, oil stewed rice, Erhe rice (rice mixed with crushed corn, also called bao gu rice), bud rice, rice flour, two pieces of rice, pea flour, rice tofu and other colorful varieties. Among them, glutinous rice dumplings, flower rice and sesame oil dumplings are the most well-known and are mostly used for ancestor worship or banquets. \x0d\ Their meat comes mainly from domestic animals and poultry, and they also love to hunt squirrels, bamboo rats and bamboo worms. Cooking methods are mostly burned, boiled, popped, fried, pickled, frozen, and generally do not eat raw food. \x0d\Buyi people are addicted to dog meat, there is a "fat sheep can not match the thin dog" said. VIP guests to the home as a guest, kill the dog hospitality is a very high courtesy. They pick the dog standard is "head yellow two black three flower class, white dog meat flavor is the most bland". Roasted and stewed dog meat, dog sausage, Huajiang dog meat are well-known party. Guizhou's Buyi people in case of weddings and funerals, like to use the yellow cow as a dish. \x0d\cold vegetables, "moss frozen meat", "mixed peas cold noodles", etc., is the favorite food of the Buyi people. Sauerkraut and sour soup are necessary for almost every meal, especially for women. Most of the Buyi people are good at making pickles, cured meat and edamame, and the unique folk pickles "salt and acid" are famous in China and abroad. There are also blood tofu, sausage and other flavorful dishes made from dried and fresh bamboo shoots and various insects. They are also good at making bad chili, noodle chili and kimchi, which is fragrant, sour and spicy. \x0d\ wine occupies a very important place in the daily life of the Buyi people. Every year after the fall harvest, families have to brew a large amount of rice wine and store it for year-round drinking. The Buyei people like to treat their guests with wine, no matter how much the guests drink, as long as the guests arrive, all the wine first, called "welcome wine". When drinking, they use bowls instead of cups, and they have to make guesses and sing. \x0d\\ There is a kind of tea in the Buyei area that not only has a distinctive flavor, but also has a very nice name, which is the Girl's Tea. On the eve of Qingming (a traditional Chinese festival of rituals and tomb-sweeping), the girl goes up to the mountains to pick back the tender flavor of tea tips, hot fried to maintain a certain degree of humidity, and then stack the tea leaves one by one into a cone, dried in the sun, and then processed, it is made into a volume of a cone of girl's tea. The girl tea is not only beautiful shape, but also excellent quality, is the best tea. This kind of tea is only given to friends and relatives. In love or engagement, by the girl to the lover. Girl tea, girl picking, girl do, this is the origin of the name of the girl tea.